Jack "Tiny" Lipson (January 17, 1901 â€" November 28, 1947) was an
American film actor. He appeared in over 85 films between 1927 and
1948.Lipson played character parts, and was usually uncredited. Due to
his rotund, towering figure, Lipson gained the nickname "Tiny" and was
usually cast as the "fat guy" in films. He played the role of King
Vultan the 1936 serial Flash Gordon. In 1941, he appeared in Never
Give a Sucker an Even Break as a Turkish passenger aboard an airplane
with W. C. Fields, whose mumbled remarks about the passenger's size
prompt the retort, "You a big nose have it!" Two years later, Lipson
portrayed a German sailor in the Three Stooges' short Back from the
Front, in which he is knocked unconscious and collapses on top of a
suffocating Larry Fine. Moe Howard comes to the rescue and quips,
"Whoa, a German whale!"Lipson died of a heart attack on November 28,
1947, aged 46. He is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in
Hollywood, California.
American film actor. He appeared in over 85 films between 1927 and
1948.Lipson played character parts, and was usually uncredited. Due to
his rotund, towering figure, Lipson gained the nickname "Tiny" and was
usually cast as the "fat guy" in films. He played the role of King
Vultan the 1936 serial Flash Gordon. In 1941, he appeared in Never
Give a Sucker an Even Break as a Turkish passenger aboard an airplane
with W. C. Fields, whose mumbled remarks about the passenger's size
prompt the retort, "You a big nose have it!" Two years later, Lipson
portrayed a German sailor in the Three Stooges' short Back from the
Front, in which he is knocked unconscious and collapses on top of a
suffocating Larry Fine. Moe Howard comes to the rescue and quips,
"Whoa, a German whale!"Lipson died of a heart attack on November 28,
1947, aged 46. He is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in
Hollywood, California.
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